Denuvo Using Fear Tactic To Get Devs Use Its DRM

A majority of the PC gaming community is not in the favor of Denuvo DRM or any DRM. However, that didn’t stop devs from using it. Now, Denuvo has shared some stats emphasizing the importance of its anti-tamper tech. The company noted that pirates downloaded a certain sports title more than 355,000 times in its first two weeks. 12% of which were downloaded on the game’s launch. These numbers were revealed to emphasize the importance of the DRM and how much games are vulnerable without it. During the first two weeks, Irdeto detected 355,664 torrent downloads of the illegal copy of the title. Given the retail price of the game, this puts the total potential loss of revenue from P2P downloads at $21,336,283. When Denuvo DRM initially launched, it was practically uncrackable. Hackers were unable to crack games for months. However, as the time has passed hackers took the challenge. According to Denuvo, it aims to protect the initial sales and it managed to achieve it. Now, things have changed as hackers have no problem bypassing this security measure and making the game available to the masses. However, this hasn’t stopped developers from using the anti-tamper tech. Upcoming games like Battlefield V, Just Cause 4 and more will make use of the Denuvo DRM. According to Reinhard Blaukovitsch, MD at Denuvo, piracy is a threat that is most prominent in the video game industry. He noted that the “research suggests, it can result in potentially huge revenue losses for publishers… [Read full story]